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: Avon
April 10, 2012 | Tuesday | 6 Comments
There is a metric ton of ebooks on sale from HarperCollins/Avon today - including a huge pile of earls, and two paranormal series from Jeaniene Frost and Pamela Palmer. My apologies in advance. Destined For an Early Grave by Jeaniene Frost * $5.99 * A | BN | K | S One Foot in the Grave by Jeaniene Frost * $5.99 * A | BN | K | S At Grave's End by Jeaniene Frost * $5.99 * A | BN | K | S First Drop of Crimson by Jeaniene Frost * $5.99 * A | BN | K…
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October 29, 2011 | Saturday | 1 Comments
Bang a gong, it is on!
I’m hosting a Livestream from the Emerald City Writers Conference with authors Elizabeth Boyle, Laura Lee Guhrke, Elisabeth Naughton and Karina Cooper. It’s on now - and there’s cupcakes from Avon books and possibly cocktails and merriment. Who doesn’t want cupcakes at 11am? It’s like brunch dessert!
You can watch live here - I hope you’ll come join us online!
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October 24, 2011 | Monday | 318 Comments
Avon Romance is celebrating the release of Lynsay Sands’ Bite Before Christmas - and if you answer the following question correctly in the comments (and it is SO not a hard question), you’re entered to win! Clue: “Tell us where Lynsay Sands hails from…and what’s the sexiest site to see when you visit this destination?” Now , first part has an audio clue: click and listen to the funky music! The second part: UP TO YOU. What’s the sexiest sight to see in that part of the world? Does it involve SOCKS? A MULLET? I can only hope. So give…
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September 06, 2011 | Tuesday | 0 Comments
We have a special podcast this week: both of us had the opportunity to interview Stephanie Laurens as part of her media tour for Viscount Breckenridge to the Rescue, and to raise awareness for Avon’s KISS and Teal program. Avon has made a $25,000.00 donation to the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance, and will donate .25 for each book, digital or print, purchased as part of the KISS and Teal promotion. Books marked with the teal ribbon are part of the promotion. Our interviews were recorded by phone in two parts, so we sound a little muffled, and each one of…
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August 31, 2011 | Wednesday | 87 Comments
This entry was inspired by Abby, who wrote to me and implored, “go to amazon.co.uk and look up Lisa Kleypas. WHY ARE THEIR BOOK COVERS SO MUCH BETTER THAN OURS?!?!?!! I am so upset about this, it’s kind of ridiculous. They just look so much classier! It’s totally unfair.”
Is that so? Well, let’s have a look, shall we? All the pics are below the fold - but the poll, depending on the browser, may be up here.
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August 11, 2011 | Thursday | 60 Comments
More ebooks have been released from Avon, including Hearts Aflame, which is their current .99c offering (Amazon | BN | WORD | Kobo). This book is a classic medieval Lindsay.
While I am not as big a fan of medieval -set romances, I know this book has some fans.
ESPECIALLY since the original cover looked like THIS:
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July 28, 2011 | Thursday | 9 Comments
There’s always something happening on the Internet. It’s so cool that way.
First up: Paul Biba, my fellow Jersey-an, has an interview with Susan Edwards, COO of Ellora’s Cave, about their new direct-to-consumer eReader that will debut at RomantiCon in September.
A branded version of a device that, according to Paul, is very similar to devices from Russian companies Digma and Prology, the EC reader will come stocked with short stories, and will be sold at the convention. They haven’t set a price.
Best part: It vibrates.
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June 09, 2011 | Thursday | 21 Comments
First: Zoe Archer wrote this thoughtful entry about romance and feminism: Romance novels depict the emotional lives of women and men. The books aren’t merely the heroine’s journey toward love, but the hero’s journey, as well. Men’s emotions aren’t dismissed or suppressed. Men aren’t belittled for having feelings. Often, it’s the hero’s growing level of comfort and familiarity with emotion that forms one of the central elements to a romance novel. And this openness and acceptance with love actually makes the hero stronger, not weaker. Over at Kirkus, my most recent column is up. I’m talking about when the sex…
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June 06, 2011 | Monday | 42 Comments
One of my favorite historical romances is “The Duke and I” by Julia Quinn, which started the Bridgerton series. I love that book. If I go near it, I lose two hours because I will reread it again for the three hundred and forty-seventh time. I love the friendly style of the writing, the warmth of the family - and have mercy, the depiction of a sane and loving mother and a family that actually likes one another. So when I learned that Julia Quinn’s next book was about the Smythe-Smith family, hosts of the infamously bad musicale from the…
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June 02, 2011 | Thursday | 8 Comments
It’s Christmas in June - well, for this review anyway - as Lindlee takes on a holiday story for the RITA® Reader Challenge. First, ye olde plot summary: Anything can happen at Christmas! When her father threatens to marry Abigail Montross off to a man twice her age (and with thirteen children!), she decides to elope instead with the irresistibly handsome Baron de Vasconia. She knows all about his notorious reputation. He is the most seductive man in all of London, but he’s vowed to protect her, so she allows herself to be tempted into his bed, promising to guard…
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March 21, 2011 | Monday | 150 Comments
You guys do understand that I read these primarily because I enjoy it, right? I mean, some of them were “unpleasant” (Purity’s Passion, I am looking at you), some are off the hook (Forbidden Desires? That’s you) and some are so wonderfully trashy I can’t help but adore them (Henley is my kryptonite). For the most part, I enjoy it. I think I have a very selective form of masochism. And, in general, if I truly hate it, or it’s just not interesting enough to review, I won’t review it. This book is a bit different, though. Because I did…
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March 07, 2011 | Monday | 38 Comments
Avon/HarperCollins announced today a digital first imprint, Avon Impulse, which will launch with a digital short from author . From the extremely brief ABC news article: Avon Books announced Monday that it has set up a digital romance imprint, Avon Impulse, where books by new and established authors will be released electronically, with paper editions available on demand. The imprint begins next week with an e-novella by Katherine Ashe, “A Lady’s Wish,” and “multiple titles” are planned each month. Avon Books is an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. The digital market has been especially strong for romance fiction, in part because…
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February 25, 2011 | Friday | 124 Comments
Publishers are looking to limit how libraries do digital lending. It’s infuriating. I’m going to have to go wear my unsexy mouthguard, I’m clenching my jaw to steel-bending proportions the more I read. Start here: Bobbi L. Newman explained the great crapful news from OverDrive about digital lending: Digital book sales are now a significant percentage of all publisher and author revenue. As a result several trade publishers are re-evaluating eBook licensing terms for library lending services. Publishers are expressing concern and debating their digital future where a single eBook license to a library may never expire, never wear out,…
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December 14, 2010 | Tuesday | 22 Comments
I tweeted about this book after I finished the ARC, and I still think about this book, AND remember the title - which is totally odd for me. Blake did a number of really interesting things that made this book different from a lot of contemporary romance: The heroine, Tessa, has Crohn’s disease, which means she has periods where she’s very weak, nauseated, and ill, and she’s on a very strict diet to try to control the intestinal inflammation. Crohn’s disease is not a sexy disease, but it does profoundly affect the people who have it, often severely. If there’s…
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September 27, 2010 | Monday | 822 Comments
Hello. Ah am Gracie. Ah am one of Sarah’s cats. Ah am one of two girls in this house. Everyone else is a boy. That is the disgusting. Here is me. Am Ah not pretty? Ah am pretty. You can send me the tributes. Ah like the Pounce. Sarah asked me to write the entry today because Ah have not ever done so, despite sitting on many, if not all, of Sarah’s romance novels. Mah Gawd, they are everywhere. Piles of them. Ah like to drape my hairy backside - ahem - beautiful puffulous posterior across as many as possible,…
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